Motivation
Feedback from 2022 showed that the Trigger API is rather confusing, mostly due to the following:
- duplicate Trigger and Button APIs were available; users were confused searching for a nonexistent difference between them.
- the when terminology was ambiguous and unclear whether it refers to the high state or specifically the rising edge.
- the Active terminology didn't unambiguously refer to the high state; it wasn't unintuitive to understand it as "when the binding is active/polled".
- whileHeld vs whenHeld was very confusing, and the difference between them wasn't obvious. The parallel Trigger verbs, whileActiveContinuously and whileActiveOnce are much less confusing.
Solution
Deprecating Button and its binding methods. The rationale for deprecating Button (and not Trigger) is because Button uses terminology that is needlessly more specific and restricting to the button use case, making the use case of arbitrary trigger conditions unintuitive.
After consideration, deprecation of Button's subclasses was decided against:
- NetworkButton (a trigger condition based on a boolean NT entry/topic) is a use case that is not necessarily intuitive for teams to implement themselves, so it is an abstraction that should be provided in the library. A parallel class for the BooleanEvent level, NetworkBooleanEvent, was also added as part of NT4. NT listeners were considered as a alternative solution, but they require attention to thread safety, and aren't interoperable with the EventLoop API.
- JoystickButton/POVButton provide abstractions around HID buttons. The new Trigger-returning factories on the HID classes are an equal (if not more concise) alternative, but there is no reason not to keep them for those who find their use preferable.
At a later date in the deprecation cycle (perhaps for 2024), when Button is removed, these subclasses should be changed to inherit directly from Trigger.
Trigger's bindings are changed to use True/False terminology, as it should be unambiguous. Each binding type has both True and False variants; for brevity, only the True variants are listed here:
- onTrue (replaces whenActive): schedule on rising edge.
- whileTrue (replaces whileActiveOnce): schedule on rising edge, cancel on falling edge.
- toggleOnTrue (replaces toggleWhenActive): on rising edge, schedule if unscheduled and cancel if scheduled.
Two binding types are completely deprecated:
- cancelWhenActive: this is a fairly niche use case which is better described as having the trigger's rising edge (Trigger.rising()) as an end condition for the command (using Command.until()).
- whileActiveContinuously: however common, this relied on the no-op behavior of scheduling an already-scheduled command. The more correct way to repeat the command if it ends before the falling edge is using Command.repeatedly/RepeatCommand or a RunCommand -- the only difference is if the command is interrupted, but that is more likely to result in two commands perpetually canceling each other than achieve the desired behavior. Manually implementing a blindly-scheduling binding like whileActiveContinuously is still possible, though might not be intuitive.
Notes
It was considered to share BooleanEvent's digital signal terminology; however, once it was decided that Trigger should not inherit from BooleanEvent (due to overload incompatibility) the common terminology was not worth the unintuitiveness stemming from users' unfamiliarity with the signal processing terms.
This is enabled by the C++20 __VA_OPT__ feature.
Uses of "{}" format string were updated.
Some warning suppressions were required for older clang versions.
Also improve codegen of wpi::Logger::Log(), frc::ReportError(), and frc::MakeError();
these generate better and less redundant code if they use fmt::string_view for the
format string instead of templating on it.
* Use explicit this capture required by C++20
* Use C++20 span
* Replace wpi::numbers with std::numbers
* Fix C++20 clang-tidy warning false positive in fmt
* Remove ciso646 include since C++20 removed that header
* Fix global-buffer-overflow asan warnings in ntcore tests
* Add DIOSetProxy constructor to HAL
* Upgrade MSVC compiler to 2022
* Bump native-utils to 2023.2.7 (changes to std=c++20)
Co-authored-by: Peter Johnson <johnson.peter@gmail.com>
Add a CommandPtr with an internal unique_ptr to enable not needing to move the underlying classes, which is error-prone due to the potential for lambda captures.
Now, implicit narrowing conversions are only used with wpi::Now(). This
also fixes clang-tidy warnings about C-style casts. For example:
```
== clang-tidy /__w/allwpilib/allwpilib/wpilibNewCommands/src/main/native/include/frc2/command/SwerveControllerCommand.inc ==
/__w/allwpilib/allwpilib/wpilibNewCommands/src/main/native/include/frc2/command/SwerveControllerCommand.inc:95:18: warning: C-style casts are discouraged; use static_cast/const_cast/reinterpret_cast [google-readability-casting]
auto curTime = units::second_t(m_timer.Get());
^
```
In that case at least, the cast was removed entirely since Get() already
returns a units::second_t.
Fixes several cases where calling scheduler operations from a command callback could result in NPEs or other issues.
Co-authored-by: Tyler Veness <calcmogul@gmail.com>
This allows us to error out on deprecation warnings for thirdparty
libraries and standard library features.
Co-authored-by: Starlight220 <53231611+Starlight220@users.noreply.github.com>
Supersedes #2358 with updates and cleanups.
Closes#2482 and closes#2487 because we shouldn't support both
time-based and count-based debouncing approaches.
Co-authored-by: oblarg <emichaelbarnett@gmail.com>
The non-NT portion has been moved to wpiutil.
The NT portion has been moved to ntcore (as NTSendable).
SendableBuilder similarly split and moved.
SendableRegistry moved to wpiutil.
In C++, SendableHelper also moved to wpiutil.
This enables use of Sendable from wpimath and also enables
moving several classes from wpilib to wpimath.
- Twine, StringRef, Format, and NativeFormatting have been removed
- Logging now uses fmtlib style formatting
- Nearly all uses of wpi::outs/errs have been replaced with fmt::print() or
std::puts()/std::fputs() (for unformatted strings).
- A wpi/fmt/raw_ostream.h header has been added to enable
fmt::print() with wpi::raw_ostream
A lot of these are breaking changes. frc::Timer was replaced with the
contents of frc2::Timer. The others were in-place argument changes or
removing deprecated non-unit overloads.
This reverts commit a79faace1b.
This change will be superseded in a non-breaking way by changing to static functions and deprecating GetInstance() entirely.
Improves consistency across all classes.
Affects Preferences, LiveWindow, and CameraServer.
Old commands Scheduler::GetInstance() was not updated as this is already
deprecated.
